Recent content by lensteruk

Sorry I didn't make much sense there. I meant hook up the PowerBook to the iMac via fw then boot the PowerBook and run dw from there with iMac started in target disk mode. The PowerBook can then see the iMac startup disk as a mounted volume and dw can rebuild. Well all that went well- dw...

Ok so I have got techtools to work and there is an error volume structure is corrupt. So downloaded DW but I can't boot it until the disc arrived in post. Might try and hook up the PowerBook and use target disk mode?

OK so now i know that things are going against me.. downloaded and purchased diskwarrior but i cant boot from the disk. reading the text it would seem that i have to wait for the disk to arrive through the post before i can boot from it and repair the startup disk... any way that i can use the...

Sorry to be dumb but how do i boot to the installer ?

Right, managed to find the techtool deluxe from the applecare cd and have updated it to work on Snow Leopard. The diagnostics showed the volume structure to have failed. Currently downloading techtool dmg so that i can boot into it and find some way of repairing the volume structure. any ideas?

Hey thanks for the advice. I have carried out the hdd verification and all is good there. As for trying the Apple hardware test, I have inserted the Snow Leopard disc and tried holding D, also tried the Leopard Disc and tried holding D. Nothing happens - just boots normally. I think the issue is...

I have an iMac 2.4 Gig (2008) 3 with 2Gb Ram which has served me wonderfully well thus far but i have been experiencing some performance issues lately. I had a bit of a system crash a while ago which i think is at the root of the problem. It was fixed with support from Apple by doing an archive...